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1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.3Giant Asian killer hornets spotted in Washington Statehttps://news.americanow.app/articles/giant-asian-killer-hornets-spotted-in-washington-state/
Tue, 05 May 2020 03:46:14 +0000https://news.americanow.app/?post_type=articles&p=1237Sightings of the Asian Giant Hornet has prompted many people to fear the likelihood of the nasty insect establishing itself in the country, which could potentially devastate the bee population. Take Ted McFall for example. He has decades of experience of beekeeping but was not expecting this. In November, McFall had done a checkup on […]

]]>Sightings of the Asian Giant Hornet has prompted many people to fear the likelihood of the nasty insect establishing itself in the country, which could potentially devastate the bee population.

Take Ted McFall for example. He has decades of experience of beekeeping but was not expecting this.

In November, McFall had done a checkup on a hive near Custer, Washington, according to The New York Times, however, he noticed that something was wrong. The bees that he was going to tend to were all dead with no trace of the culprit at all. He later thought about the recent sightings of the Asian Giant Hornet and put two and two together.

Of the incident, McFall said that “I couldn’t wrap my head around what could have done that,” not suspecting the “Murder Hornets” until quite some time afterward probably because of the location at hand.

The Asian Giant Hornet is the world’s largest hornet and is native to Eastern Asia.

The New York Times noted in their story about the insect that it kills on average about 50 people per year, pointing out that their sting is like no other.

Beekeeper and entomologist Conrad Bérubé from the Nanaimo area of Vancouver got to experience this first hand. After a crew was able to find a hive on Vancouver Island, he was called to exterminate it and rid the ecosystem of the dangers that possibly could have happened.

“It was like having red-hot thumbtacks being driven into my flesh,” he said, per The New York Times.

Although Bérubé came well prepared for what he set out to do, it was to no avail — he had on a pair of shorts and sweatpants underneath his bee suit and still couldn’t stop himself from getting stung at least seven times, and worse. The New York Times reported that he even drew blood from some of the stings.

Bérubé succeeded in his goal to eliminate the hive, despite it all. Of his experience with the insect, he admitted that the stings he got from the Asian Giant Hornet were the worst pain that he ever felt, adding that the leg pain he suffered from as a result of the encounter he had with the Asian Giant Hornets was similar flu-like symptoms.

State officials also disclosed that he was successful at providing a leg of the insect, shipping it to Japan, and making it possible for him to provide a sample Nanaimo nest too.

Meanwhile, people like the entomologist Chris Looney are setting makeshift traps for the hornet in an industrial park in Blaine, according to The New York Times.

Looney noted that he and others are planning to set hundreds of traps over the next several months in order to track the insect and to discover other unknown hives in the future.

Seen below is a video of this lethal hornet killing a mouse.

Coyote Peterson is a YouTube vlogger who uploads videos of himself getting stung by insects. In the episode below, he catches and gets stung by the Asian Killer Hornet

]]>Russia Sends Plane Full of Medical Supplies to UShttps://news.americanow.app/articles/russia-sends-plane-full-of-medical-supplies-to-us/
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 04:17:43 +0000https://news.americanow.app/?post_type=articles&p=1231Last Wednesday, a Russian-sent military transport airplane full of medical supplies and sanitary equipment took off from Moscow airfield. The plane has landed at the John F. Kennedy airport in New York. It was intended as a medical aid from Russia, after a conversation between Trump and Putin on Monday, according to the latest reports. […]

]]>Last Wednesday, a Russian-sent military transport airplane full of medical supplies and sanitary equipment took off from Moscow airfield. The plane has landed at the John F. Kennedy airport in New York. It was intended as a medical aid from Russia, after a conversation between Trump and Putin on Monday, according to the latest reports.

Trump accepted Putin’s offer of medical supplies to help fight the coronavirus pandemic which is rapidly catching up in US homes. There has been a large struggle to restock shortages of medical protective equipment.

“Trump gratefully accepted this humanitarian aid,” says Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman for the Interfax news agency on Tuesday. Reportedly, Trump was enthusiastic for the Russian aid after conversing with Putin about the global pandemic.

Some US officials have made it unnecessarily harder for the Russian Embassy to expedite the aid, Peskov complains. “At a time when the current situation affects everyone without exception … there is no alternative to working together in a spirit of partnership and mutual assistance,” he remarks, giving an example of the Russian cooperation with China.

The State Department reports that the US has approved the purchase of the medical supplies after the Trump-Putin call. “We are a generous and reliable contributor to crisis response and humanitarian action across the world, but we cannot do it alone,” says State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus.

“Both countries have provided humanitarian assistance to each other in times of crisis in the past and will no doubt do so again in the future,” she adds. “This is a time to work together to overcome a common enemy that threatens the lives of all of us.”

A Complicated Relationship

There have been drastic foreign affairs strains between Moscow and Washington in recent years because of many reasons, mainly the Syria and Ukraine issues, as well as the US election interferences, as denied by Russia. Since 2016, Trump has been fighting a federal investigation battle about his election and whether or not has Russia involved.

Russia also sent planes with generous amounts of medical resources and supplies to Italy, belittling the EU’s inept response to quickly provide their member country much-needed help during the crisis. During the outbreak’s starting points, Italy and China were the countries with the most confirmed coronavirus cases.

The Russian Embassy tweeted that Moscow responded with a medical aid after Trump stated that the coronavirus death toll could reach more than 200,000. They also hope that the US government would return the favor as well.

“Importantly, when offering assistance to the American colleagues, President Putin is guided by the following consideration: when manufacturers of medical equipment gain momentum they will be able to reciprocate if need be,” the Russian Embassy tweets.

“I have to say, we’ve had great relationships with a lot of countries,” Trump states. “China sent us some stuff, which was terrific. Russia sent us a very, very large planeload of things, medical equipment, which was very nice.”

According to a US official in Washington, the Russian aid airplane shipment carries 60 tons of medical equipment, masks, respirators, and such. It’s ordered that they carefully examine the contents for quality control by the US Food and Drug Administration.

As of now, confirmed US coronavirus cases reached more than a staggering 336,000 infected with 9,616 deaths.

Meanwhile, the official tally counts more than 2,000 cases, with 17 deaths. However, Russian medical staff report conflicting numbers, doubting the official data.

]]>Asian Americans Face Discrimination Amid The Coronavirus Pandemichttps://news.americanow.app/articles/asian-americans-face-discrimination-amid-the-coronavirus/
Sat, 04 Apr 2020 04:29:08 +0000https://news.americanow.app/?post_type=articles&p=1221In these times of quarantine craziness, Asian Americans have been facing more than just the fear of contracting the coronavirus, these people have been dealing with discrimination amid the outbreak too. And the most powerful leader in the world isn’t doing anything to help the situation. In fact, he’s making things worse. President Donald Trump […]

]]>In these times of quarantine craziness, Asian Americans have been facing more than just the fear of contracting the coronavirus, these people have been dealing with discrimination amid the outbreak too.

And the most powerful leader in the world isn’t doing anything to help the situation. In fact, he’s making things worse.

President Donald Trump recently made hurtful and misleading comments, saying “China is to blame” and calling the disease the “China virus.”

ABC News’ Linsey Davis breaks down how the coronavirus is, unfortunately, being linked to Asian Americans:

“I’d like to begin by providing an update on what we’re doing to minimize the impact of the ‘Chinese virus’ on our nation’s students,” said Trump during a press conference.

In the words of Trump, “Sad!”

Meanwhile, the labels and titles that some people are giving to Asian Americans are causing more harm than good, starting many acts of violence against these innocent people to occur.

Asian American outrage has even been trending on Twitter over time, getting thousands of likes, retweets and discussions about hate speech and racism being shared across social media.

One blogger said that by calling it the “Chinese” virus Trump is perpetuating the fear, hatred, and in some cases, violence against Chinese and Asians worldwide:

“I have to be extra careful that if I sneeze, because I know I’m Asian, and more specifically Chinese, what are people going to think?”

In an interview with ABC News, Rep. Grace Meng told the news agency that she wants Trump to say COVID-19, not the “Chinese virus,” which creates fear, and hatred or worse.

Trump uses tactics like these to “divert from a lack of responsibility,” she said. Meng added that he has been showing “a lack of responsiveness” as well.

Finally, Ted Lieu, a congressman from California, blasted Trump in an opinion piece for the Washington Post last week, shedding light on his misleading and hurtful words.

“Trump’s rhetoric adds fuel to the growing fire of hatred being misdirected at Asian Americans,” he wrote.

]]>A New Coronavirus Symptom: Sudden Loss of Smell and Tastehttps://news.americanow.app/articles/a-new-coronavirus-symptom-sudden-loss-of-smell-and-taste/
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:09:14 +0000https://news.americanow.app/?post_type=articles&p=1206Several medical groups, including the American Academy of Otolaryngology of Head and Neck Surgery and the ENT UK warn about COVID-19-positive patients that there’s a new symptom of the coronavirus – their sudden loss of sense of smell and taste. “Anecdotal evidence is rapidly accumulating from sites around the world that anosmia and dysgeusia are […]

]]>Several medical groups, including the American Academy of Otolaryngology of Head and Neck Surgery and the ENT UK warn about COVID-19-positive patients that there’s a new symptom of the coronavirus – their sudden loss of sense of smell and taste.

“Anecdotal evidence is rapidly accumulating from sites around the world that anosmia and dysgeusia are significant symptoms associated with the COVID-19 pandemic,” the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery issued the statement, citing the growing numbers of cases around the World.

The loss of smell is also called ‘anosmia’, and ‘dysgeusia’ has to do with the loss or having an odd sense of taste.

The most-afflicted countries, South Korea, Italy, and China, also report great numbers of their registered COVID-19 patients having similar symptoms like altered senses of smell and taste.

The president of the British Rhinological Society, Claire Hopkins, and the president of ENT UK, Nirmal Kumar, reported on the statistics: “In Germany it is reported that more than 2 in 3 confirmed cases have anosmia. In South Korea, where testing has been more widespread, 30% of patients testing positive have had anosmia as their major presenting symptom in otherwise mild cases.”

“The symptoms are clearly not as common as cough, fever, and shortness of breath, but in the absence of a known cause for the smell disorder, this symptom may be an additional identifier for infected patients,” according to Dr. James C. Denneny III of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He states that some patients have experienced the symptom early on in COVID-19 illnesses, while others experience it further into the illness.

Some have also reported similar symptoms like Noelle Ruiz, who suffered a 101-degree fever. The flu-like symptoms were followed by a headache and cough six days later. The symptoms later developed into chest pains, fatigue, and shortness of breath.

“I couldn’t really take a deep breath, I didn’t feel like I had enough air in my lungs,” she complains of the pain, and she also mentions the new symptoms: “I lost taste, food wasn’t appetizing, I couldn’t smell anything.”

Even Rudy Gobert, the Utah Jazz center, tweeted that he lost his sense of smell and taste. The basketball star tested positive for the coronavirus two weeks ago: “I haven’t been able to smell anything for the last four days.”

Dr. Gregory Levitin, an otolaryngologist at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, warns about the coronavirus symptoms: “With the seasonal flu, patients can experience a cluster of symptoms as the illness begins, including a cough, fever, congestion, fatigue and loss of smell or taste.”

“What is most unusual about this new finding is that the loss of smell or taste was the only presenting symptom in a group of patients under the age of 40 who ultimately tested positive for the COVID-19 virus,” Levitin writes.

“While it is too early to determine how patients affected by COVID-19 will recover, given what we know it would be reasonable to hope that they would do as well as patients affected by the seasonal flu in years past,” Levitin added, in hopes that the newly uncovered symptom will ease further research and improve the methods of dealing with the novelty coronavirus.

]]>Opera Singer Arrested After Dancing on Roof of SUV and Crashing Through Two Security Checkpoints at Trump’s Mar-A-Lagohttps://news.americanow.app/articles/opera-singer-arrested-after-dancing-on-roof-of-suv-and-crashing-through-two-security-checkpoints-at-trumps-mar-a-lago/
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 02:01:40 +0000https://news.americanow.app/?post_type=articles&p=1192Hannah Roemhild, a 30-year-old opera singer, was charged with zipping past security checkpoints at President Trump’s resort, after escaping Secret Service agents who spotted her dancing on an SUV. The bizarre event took place on Friday morning, at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Policemen saw the Connecticut-born opera singer acting strangely and dancing on the roof […]

]]>Hannah Roemhild, a 30-year-old opera singer, was charged with zipping past security checkpoints at President Trump’s resort, after escaping Secret Service agents who spotted her dancing on an SUV.

The bizarre event took place on Friday morning, at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Policemen saw the Connecticut-born opera singer acting strangely and dancing on the roof of an SUV close to the Breaker’s resort.

The local police officers noticed her, and she avoided the encounter by leading them on a wild goose chase. Reportedly, she drove 70 mph through the busy streets of Palm Beach, picking up a female acquaintance.

At around 11:30 a.m., the pair managed to blow through two security checkpoints at Trump’s resort, while shot at by Secret Service agents. The Florida Highway Patrol promptly put an end to the chase while the women were driving near a vicinity of a hotel.

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw reports that the opera singer was “obviously impaired”. He says that “there was clearly no intention”, emphasizing her erratic and ill-fated behavior. Bradshaw says “I’m not sure she knew where she was going”, as the pair disregarded safety and violating all manner of traffic charges.

Roemhild is a regular opera performer in Palm Beach County. Reportedly, according to the locals, this kind of chaotic behavior from the opera singer is unlikely and shocking. Her attorney, David Roth, states that she has a well-documented history of mental illness.

Oddly enough, Reuters reports that there are countless anti-Trump social media posts on Roemhild’s Facebook account that might shed light on the strange event. She has been posting photos of various demonstrations carrying “Not My President” signs, and other political posts.

President Trump was in Washington during the event. He had an important schedule to go to the Super Bowl events at Mar-a-Lago Sunday.

Sherriff Bradshaw states she will be charged with various crimes. The crimes are assault on a federal officer, deadly assault on a sheriff’s deputy, and reckless driving with other violations.

]]>Opinion | Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 : An unexpected turn of events for US-Iran conflicthttps://news.americanow.app/articles/opinion-ukraine-airlines-flight-752-an-unexpected-turn-of-events-for-us-iran-conflict/
Sat, 08 Feb 2020 11:36:14 +0000https://news.americanow.app/?post_type=articles&p=1188What was deemed as a start of a catastrophic war between the United States and Iran ended with Iranian’s taking to the streets and demanding the resignation of Supreme Leader Ali Khameini. The fiery protests are due to a series of incompetencies that led to the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet and the killing […]

]]>What was deemed as a start of a catastrophic war between the United States and Iran ended with Iranian’s taking to the streets and demanding the resignation of Supreme Leader Ali Khameini. The fiery protests are due to a series of incompetencies that led to the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet and the killing of 176 people, 82 of which are Iranian nationals.

A complete 180-degree shift from a country uniting towards imposing “death to America” after the assassination of their revered military commander Qassem Soleimani, to another wave of aggressive protests after a revelation of betrayal and lies by their own government.

Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 crash

On January 8, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 took off from Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran at 06:12 local time (02:42 GMT). Less than 4 minutes after departure, the passenger plane crashed in a field outside Tehran, killing all 176 people on board.

The plane was a Boeing 737-800 – one of the international airline industry’s most widely used aircraft models. As the flight’s manifest was released, the victims were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, four Afghans, four Britons, three Germans and nine crew members from Ukraine.

As strong suspicions of the plane being shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile emerged, claims were immediately and vehemently denied at all levels of Iranian government with officials blaming engine failure and technical malfunction for the plane crash.

But heat-sensitive American satellites detected missiles fired from an Iranian air defense system towards the Ukrainian jet when it was about 8000 feet in the air.

And after mounting evidence surfaced contrary to the Iranian’s narrative, Iran’s military announced responsibility to the downing of the plane. It took days for the government to come clean on the negligence, and lying about the deaths of 176 innocent passengers triggered widespread anti-government protests within Iran. With brutal anti-government crackdowns, protesters were injured and killed.

What does the downing of Flight 752 mean forward?

Trump re-established deterrence with Iran.

The silver lining of this dark and tragic event is that it represents a break-off from the recent set of extremely dangerous escalations, which could have easily invited another devastating war to the middle-east.

The US asserts that Iran is backing down and as tension deescalates, Iran can claim it made the last strike. Looking back at the standoff, with all other factors aside, US President Donald Trump walked away with one objective completed — re-establishing deterrence.

Iran’s strategy to combating the US has taken a strong shift since the Obama era, this is directly due to Trump’s foreign tactics. One thing is clear, Trump has managed to establish and enforce a strong red line –the lives of fellow Americans.

As sporadic and unpredictable Trump’s behavior may seem with regards to Iran, the US president has been fairly consistent on his red lines and has demonstrated a willingness to enforce them.

On June 20, 2019 Iran downed a United States RQ-4A Global Hawk surveillance drone, one of the most advanced and expensive drones in the US arsenal (Costing $223,000,000, more expensive than the F-35 fighter jet), with a surface to air missile.

All of Trump’s military advisers pushed for a harsh military response but Trump called it off at the very last minute as he did not feel killing people was a fair response to destroying US military equipment.

….On Monday they shot down an unmanned drone flying in International Waters. We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not….

Additionally, when Iran allegedly attacked Saudi oil fields on September 18, 2019, causing a spike in market prices and damaged five percent of the world’s oil supply, President Trump, once again, was pressured to respond forcefully. Yet, the same argument was made and the president showed military constraint.

However, that all changed on December 27, 2019 when Iranian backed forces killed a US contractor in Iraq. The US responded by assassinating Iran’s top general in Iraq, Qassam Soleimani.

Trump made it clear that harming any US citizens would bring the conflict to a place that Iran would be left with tough decisions.

The US had multiple opportunities to take out Soleimani, especially during the Obama era. Soleimani travelled freely within Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, often just miles from US posts. The general understanding was that assassinating him would create more problems than it would solve.

Now, Iran finds itself stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, the country is enraged and not responding would show great weakness, setting a precedent for future US attacks and on the other, attacking US troops would welcome a conflict they cannot afford — politically, economically and militarily.

Iran’s decision was one of the compromises. Iran attacked two US bases, the Al-Asad base and a base in Erbil. However, they intentionally delivered notice of the attack to the Iraqi government, well aware that their targets would be forewarned. This way, they can maintain a strong posture, while avoiding crossing Trumps red line.

Change in political momentum for the US and Iranian tensions

For decades, the United States and western powers turned Iran into a Pariah state, enforcing crippling sanctions on the country.

During the Obama administration, the United States took a more diplomatic approach to dealing with Iran. World powers agreed to taper off sanctions in return for regulating Iran’s nuclear capabilities. This agreement was formalized as the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), or P5+1 (refers to the UN Security Council’s five permanent members; namely China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; plus Germany).

However, after President Trump assumed power, he reversed his approach to Iran and pulled out of the JCPOA. He called it, “the worst deal ever made,” snapping back the harshest of sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic, with a new strategy of “Maximum Pressure”.

In response, the Iranian administration demonstrated strategic patience, well calculated posture and only lashed out with proxies reserving plausible deniability to any wrong-doings.

This allowed Iran to preserve the support of the remaining P5+1 members, diplomatically isolating the US states in their Maximum campaign strategy. So much so, that the European powers designed a Special Purpose Vehicle in an attempt to circumvent the US’ sanctions on the Islamic State.

However, the downing of the Ukrainian passenger jet might just serve as a turning point in regard to how the JCPOA will be handled forward.

Iran currently sees itself being squeezed on all fronts, their oil revenue is down more than 80 percent, inflation in the country is soaring, their proxy militias in Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon are not getting paid, and domestic unrest is growing frequent and aggressive.

One can argue that the White House’s maximum pressure campaign failed to bring Iran to the negotiating table, but it’s certainly posing a lethal threat to the Iranian government.

The Iranian hardliners have always opposed the JCPOA, and the moderate Rouhani government can no longer justify staying in it. They are forced to play the hand that the Americans want.

The Iranian government has just announced that it is now enriching uranium at a higher level than before the JCPOA agreement, thereby absolving all commitments forward. This can be seen as a direct provocation to the USA, but more importantly, to their European counterparts that refused to join in walking away from the agreement.

Then on January 14, the three Western European powers in the agreement –France, Germany, and the UK– formally complained that Iran was no longer abiding by its end of the bargain, saying they are left with no choice but to report Iran as not meeting its commitments under the JCPOA.

Iran is now losing their long-held European support, and western powers are starting to adopt a new strategy with Iran, one that Trump has been pushing for over 2 years.

So much so, we can see anti-government protesters would around the US and Israeli flagged on the floors of Tehran.

Now, further inflict pressure on the Islamic regime, violent protests erupt within the country’s capital and Iranians have expressed dismay to their tyrant leadership.

Furious Iranians took to the streets after being lied to from the truth behind Flight 752’s crash. More than the incompetence that surrounded the downing of the plane, Iran’s officials tried to hide from the people the real reason of the crash. Only when security footage and amateur videos of the crash came out that Iran’s government admitted responsibility to the incident.

People turned farther away from the government, and more sympathetic to the US’s rhetoric that the Iranian government cannot be trusted.

The demonstrations in Iran were not only participated by middle class citizens and students but also those lower-income Iranians in traditionally pro-regime areas. Even known personalities such as Iran’s actors, journalists and editors of pro-government news agencies denounced the government for misleading the media and the people, whom they considered slaves of the Islamic regime.

Iran’s posture was hurt.

The US’ military budget in 2019 was recorded at an astounding 686 billion compared to Iran’s military budget of approximately $13 billion. Iran does not need to take on the US in a military confrontation, they just need to make it appear as so. The country has a notorious reputation for exaggerating their military capabilities. This includes tampering with video footage of military drills and hosting mock presentation of aircraft fighters.

Now this is a time when Iranian defenses should be primed for American retaliation, a big blunder was witnessed. It does not reflect well on the Iran’s military competence.

However, this blunder reveals that their conventional military does not live up to the same standard.

The Iranian ground crew operating the Russian made TOR-M1 missile defense system, which shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane, should have easily identified that the target they locked onto was certainly not a military aircraft.

For starters, it was within the Imam Khomeini International Airport airspace, on top of the fact that the plane was climbing at a speed of 250 knots and a rate of climb of about 2,500ft / minute, this is not the behavior of a missile or military aircraft, this is typical behavior of a civilian airliner.

Additionally, the transponder beacon that a civilian aircraft broadcasts was operating and should serve as another dead giveaway that this is not a threatening aircraft. The people monitoring this equipment were poorly trained.

On top of this, we have just learned that 2 missiles were shot at the civilian plane, with a 35 second delay. Indicating extremely poor oversight, correction control and chain of command.

Iran’s greatest fear was never the Americans invading, it’s their own people turning against them. They, more than anyone, understand what events a revolution could set forth. Iranian officials denied any responsibility for the downing of the plane with the type of boldness and confidence you would not expect from amateur liar and it’s this sort of behavior that can lose whatever trust they have left with their people, and certainly lends weight to their enemies.

Trump has found best artillery to win over this conflict with Iran. The US president has shown support to the grassroots revolutions and this is something the Iranian government fears the most. As they know very well, revolutions are the greatest threat to topple their corrupt government.

]]>NASA honors fallen astronauts in solemn Day of Remembrancehttps://news.americanow.app/articles/nasa-honors-fallen-astronauts-in-solemn-day-of-remembrance/
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:19:25 +0000https://news.americanow.app/?post_type=articles&p=1175The space community commemorated on Tuesday the death of seven astronauts who perished in the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion shortly after it launched on January 28, 1986. Exactly 34 years today, it was the first incident where NASA lost an astronaut during a flight. On board the Challenger Space Shuttle were payload specialist Gregory Jarvis, […]

The seventh crew was New Hampshire high school teacher Christa McAuliffe, who had been chosen by NASA to be the first teacher in space. She was going to work on the crew as a payload specialist.

The fatal shuttle launch happened just before noon of January 28, 1986 from the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Only 73 seconds after the space shuttle’s launch, a booster engine broke apart causing the shuttle to explode mid-air, according to NASA.

Americans watched from the ground below and on televisions around the country. Many of spectators were schoolchildren, who had high interest in the launch because of McAuliffe.

That night, after expressing condolences to the families of those killed, then President Ronald Reagan addressed the American people by reflecting on the country’s space exploration.

He said United States is still a pioneer in space and the Challenger crew were pioneers.

Addressing in particular the schoolchildren who were watching, “The future doesn’t belong to the faint-hearted, it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we’ll continue to follow them.” President Reagan said.

NASA observes a Day of Remembrance on Jan. 28 for more than one solemn anniversary. It also remembers those who died in the Apollo 1 fire that killed three people on January 27, 1967, and the Columbia accident that killed seven on February 1, 2003.

]]>BREAKING: Whistleblower nurse alleges 90k people affected by Coronavirus in Chinahttps://news.americanow.app/articles/wuhan-nurse-reveals-90k-people-affected-by-coronavirus-in-china/
Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:48:50 +0000https://news.americanow.app/?post_type=articles&p=1157Contrary to public announcements that the virus only affected some 2000 people in China, a nurse from Wuhan where the dreaded Coronavirus originated, revealed that over 90 thousand people have contracted the disease. In a video posted on Youtube, the whistleblower nurse said Coronavirus is so strong that it can infect 14 people at once. […]

]]>Contrary to public announcements that the virus only affected some 2000 people in China, a nurse from Wuhan where the dreaded Coronavirus originated, revealed that over 90 thousand people have contracted the disease.

In a video posted on Youtube, the whistleblower nurse said Coronavirus is so strong that it can infect 14 people at once.

“I’m here to tell the truth. At this moment, Hubei province, including the Wuhan area, even China, 90,000 people have been infected by Coronavirus,” said the nurse shown in the video as wearing a full-head face mask.

But some Youtube viewers who knew the nurse’s Chinese dialect commented that the number was meant to signify hospital visits and there is a possibility that one person have visited the hospital for treatment more than once.

Nevertheless, they said the number turns out to be more than what the Chinese government is claiming as currently the sum of those infected by Coronavirus in the country.

Wuhan was placed in a lockdown since January 23, but local officials said 5-million people, almost half of the city’s population have already left even before the lockdown and they are now travelling throughout the country and other parts of the world.

Health officials said Coronavirus is contagious during the incubation period, which means it can spread even before symptoms show.

To date, reports have confirmed of the virus spreading to 13 countries.

In the United States, five people has tested positive for Coronavirus while some 110 others are being monitored for possible infection.

The five confirmed cases are in California with two cases, one in Arizona, one in Washington, and one in Illinois. These patients had recently visited Wuhan, health officials said.

Meanwhile, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced a travel warning to all parts of China following the increasing number of deaths due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

]]>NBA legend Kobe Bryant killed in helicopter crashhttps://news.americanow.app/articles/nba-legend-kobe-bryant-and-daughter-gianna-killed-in-helicopter-crash/
Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:26:55 +0000https://news.americanow.app/?post_type=articles&p=1148National Basketball Association (NBA) legend Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash Sunday morning in Calabasas City. He was 41. Reports said his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Maria “Gigi” Bryant, who was with him for a trip to a basketball game at the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, also died in the crash. Speaking at […]

]]>National Basketball Association (NBA) legend Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash Sunday morning in Calabasas City. He was 41.

Reports said his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Maria “Gigi” Bryant, who was with him for a trip to a basketball game at the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, also died in the crash.

Speaking at a press conference hours after the crash, Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief Daryl Osby said Bryant was aboard his private chopper, a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter, with his daughter and other passengers when fire broke out and crashed along the hilly Calabasas area.

The crash that occurred around 10:00 in the morning amid foggy conditions in the hills, sparked bush fires that spread to a quarter of an acre, which hampered initial rescue efforts, Osby said.

Rescuers reported no survivors when they arrived at the crash site.

LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said the flight manifest recorded nine people, including the pilot, aboard the helicopter. Investigation continues as to the identities of other victims, the sheriff said.

Bryant, who is a Philadelphia native, started playing basketball when he was 3 years old and went on to become one of NBA’s greatest champions. He won five NBA championships and two Olympic gold medals for men’s basketball.

He retired from NBA in April 2016.

Bryant was married to Vanessa Bryant and they had four children– Bianka, Gianna, Natalia, and the youngest Capri, who was born in June 2019.

]]>Tulsi Gabbard files $50M defamation lawsuit vs. Hillary Clinton for “Russian asset” claimhttps://news.americanow.app/articles/tulsi-gabbard-files-50m-defamation-lawsuit-vs-hillary-clinton-for-russian-asset-claim/
Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:08:36 +0000https://news.americanow.app/?post_type=articles&p=1122Democratic Presidential aspirant Tulsi Gabbard has filed a $50-million defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton over accusations that she is a “Russian asset.” The lawsuit, made public earlier this week, stemmed from Clinton’s comments on the podcast Campaign HQ with David Plouffe in October last year that the four-time Hawaii congresswoman was Russia’s favored candidate to […]

]]>Democratic Presidential aspirant Tulsi Gabbard has filed a $50-million defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton over accusations that she is a “Russian asset.”

The lawsuit, made public earlier this week, stemmed from Clinton’s comments on the podcast Campaign HQ with David Plouffe in October last year that the four-time Hawaii congresswoman was Russia’s favored candidate to win the Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential race.

“I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on someone who’s currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She’s the favorite of the Russians,” Clinton’s comments on the podcast.

The lawsuit, filed in the district court of Manhattan, claims that the malicious comments of Clinton, who is a former United States senator and secretary of state, caused Gabbard to “lose potential donors and potential voters” and the estimated personal and professional damages exceed $50-million.

The suit also claims that Clinton has sought revenge on Gabbard ever since the latter endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. “Clinton, a cutthroat politician by any account, has never forgotten this perceived slight…she sought retribution by lying, publicly and loudly, about Tulsi Gabbard,” it states.

Gabbard’s lawyers claimed that Clinton’s comments spread like wildfire across the internet and that millions of Americans accepted the statements as fact because they came from a “well-known authority figure.”

“Tulsi brings this lawsuit to ensure that the truth prevails and to ensure this country’s political elites are held accountable for intentionally trying to distort the truth in the midst of a critical presidential election, Gabbard’s lawyer said.

For his part, Clinton’s spokesman Nick Merrill clarified in an earlier statement that it was not Russia but the Republican Party that Clinton was referring to as the one grooming Gabbard for a third-party bid.

He also called Gabbard’s lawsuit as “ridiculous” when asked for reactions by the media.

Gabbard is known for her vocal stand against the US meddling in foreign wars and her controversial tenure in Congress, where she defended Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, who she met with in Damascus in 2017 after the battle of Aleppo and who has been accused of war crimes and gassing his own people.